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Current Funding

Hudson Up

  • PI: Leah Hamilton
  • Sponsor: The Jain Family Institute
  • Award amount: $163,991
  • Project dates: 11/01/2020 to 10/31/2023

How to TRAIN Pathways: Targeted Rehabilitation of Ankle Instability through Neurological Pathways

  • PI: Alan Needle
  • Co-Investigators: Jennifer Howard and Jared Skinner
  • Sponsor: National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) Research and Education Foundation
  • Award amount: $57,349
  • Project dates: 09/01/2021 to 08/30/2024

BRIDGE2HEALTH: An Intergenerational mentoring program

  • co-PI: Jill Juris
  • Sponsor: Ohio State University/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  • Award amount: $242,124
  • Project dates: 08/25/2021 to 08/24/2026

Qualitative Evaluation of Georgia Resilience and Opportunity (GRO) Fund: Insights on the Effects of a Guaranteed Income Program for Low-Income Black Women in Georgia 

  • PI: Leah Hamilton
  • Sponsor: Give Directly
  • Award amount: $350,505
  • Project dates: 04/01/2022 to 09/30/2024

Positively Impacting Falls Prevention In The High Country

Public Health AmeriCorps in Rural Appalachia to Prepare Mitigate Respond and Recover from Acute Impacts on Mental Health

Civic Engagement, Health, and Community: A Nationally-Representative Study on the Long-term Impacts of Civic Engagement during Emerging Adulthood

  • PI: Martie Thompson
  • Sponsor: AmeriCorps
  • Award amount: $495,468
  • Project dates: 10/01/2022 to 09/30/2025

WECARE: Workforce Engagement with Care workers to Assist, Recognize, and Educate

  • PI: Sandi Lane
  • Sponsor: Duke University/Cares at UNC-Chapel Hill School of Social Work
  • Award amount: $9,607
  • Project dates: 07/01/2022 to 06/30/2023

Climate Change Impacts on Maternal Health In A Southern Birth Cohort: A Causal Analysis

  • PI: Maggie Sugg
  • Sponsor: NC State University/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
  • Award amount: $9,336
  • Project dates: 08/23/2022 to 07/31/2023

Project Community Connections, Inc. Cash Transfer Pilot

  • PI: Leah Hamilton
  • Sponsor: Project Community Connections, Inc.
  • Award amount: $138,039
  • Project dates: 10/01/2022 to 09/30/2025

Collaborative Research: HNDS-I: Repository and Benchmarking Dashboard for Campus Climate Data on Sexual Misconduct Science

  • PI: Martie Thompson
  • Sponsor: Georgia State University/National Science Foundation
  • Award amount: $27,911
  • Project dates: 08/15/2022 to 07/31/2023

Connect-Home: Learning Collaborative Phase 2 subaward with Appalachian State University

  • PI: Jennifer Womack
  • Sponsor: UNC-Chapel Hill/Lutheran Services in America
  • Award amount: $34,949
  • Project dates: 08/01/2022 to 12/31/2023

Implementation Research: An Intergenerational Technology Model in Higher Education

  • PI: Jill Juris
  • Sponsor: University of Rhode Island/Retirement Research Foundation for Aging
  • Award amount: $50,917
  • Project dates: 01/01/2023 to 12/31/2024

NCOA Older Adults Vaccine Uptake Grant

Exploring the Impact of Guaranteed Income on Asset Development and Credit-Building, Essential Tools in Combating Racial Wealth Inequality

  • PI:  Leah Hamilton
  • Sponsor: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  • Award amount: $315,243
  • Project dates: 06/01/2023 to 05/31/2025

Improving Guidance for Diving in Contaminated Waters

  • PI:  Caroline Smith 
  • Sponsor: Indiana University at Bloomington/Office of Naval Research (ONR)
  • Award amount: $7,394
  • Project dates: 05/01/2023 to 04/30/2024

Imacts of Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 Pandemic Factors on Suicide Risk among Youth

Lifestyle and Biomarker Predictors of Bladder Cancer Survivorship in South Texas

  • PI:  Shenghui Wu
  • Sponsor: American Cancer Society
  • Award amount: $792,000
  • Project dates: 02/01/2023-01/31/2026

Health Policy Research Collaborative (ASU)

  • PI:  Gary McCullough
  • Other Key Personnel: Adam Hege
  • Sponsor: Dogwood Health Trust
  • Award amount: $138,130
  • Project dates: 07/01/2023-06/30/2025

Training ReActivation from the Cortex to the Knee (TRACK)(NC Nm4R #43)

  • PI:  Alan Needle
  • Sponsor: Medical University of South Carolina/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Award amount: $37,499
  • Project dates: 05/01/2023-04/30/2024

Creatives Rebuild New York Mixed-Methods Evaluation Proposal

  • PI:  Leah Hamilton
  • Sponsor: Creatives Rebuild New York
  • Award amount: $582,855
  • Project dates: 08/01/2023-12/31/2024

Supporting Health Equity and Quality Improvement Through Engagement (SHEQuITE Network)

Recent Funding

Reducing Health Disparities with Community-engaged Patient Navigation

  • PI: Adam Hege
  • Sponsor: Wake Forest University Clinical and Translational Science Institute
  • Award amount: $5,146
  • Project dates: 07/01/2022 to 06/30/2023

Examining the Effect of Implementing a Standarized Approach for the Modified Barium Swallow Study (MBSS)

  • PI: Jordan Hazelwood
  • Sponsor: American Speech Language Hearing Foundation
  • Award amount: $35,000
  • Project dates: 12/01/2020 to 06/30/2023

Testing the Feasibility and Impact of a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Intervention on College Students' Physical and Mental Health

Senior Living Leader's Perspectives of Leading Through a Pandemic

  • PI: Sandi Lane
  • Sponsor: Des Moines University/National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards
  • Award amount: $1,200
  • Project dates: 10/01/2021 to 12/31/2022

ALP Life Sciences Nutritional Oil Study

  • PI: Gary McCullough
  • Personnel: Marty Root
  • Sponsor: ALP Life Sciences, LLC
  • Award amount: $2,249
  • Project dates: 08/01/2021 to 12/31/2022

Interdisciplinary Preparation in Special Education Early Intervention, and Related Services for Personnel Serving Children with Disabilities Who Have High Intensity Needs iSHINE

  • PI/Directors: Emily Lakey and Aftynne Cheek
  • Sponsor: United States Department of Education
  • Award amount: $1,079,804.00
  • Project dates: 10/01/2017 to 9/30/2022

Home and Community Dementia Supports (HANDS): Rural Caregiver Experiences

  • PI: David Russell
  • Sponsor: Interdisciplinary Network on Rural Population Health and Aging (INRPHA)
  • Award amount: $14,388
  • Project dates: 04/15/2021 to 09/30/2022

Effects of Campus Sexual Assualt Prevention Programs on Attitudes and Behavior among College Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

  • PI: Martie Thompson
  • Sponsor: Clemson University/DOJ Office on Violence Against Women
  • Award amount: $10,074
  • Project dates: 08/15/2021 to 05/31/2022

Health and Quality of Life of Veterans with Post-Traumatic Epilepsy and their Caregivers

  • Co-Investigator: Erin Bouldin
  • Sponsor: University of Utah/Department of Defense
  • Award amount: $201,806
  • Project dates: 10/01/2020 to 12/31/2021

Food for a Long Life

  • Project Manager: Jill Juris
  • Sponsor: The Ohio State University/National Institute of Food and Agriculture
  • Award amount: $148,380.32
  • Project dates: 9/01/2018 to 8/31/2021

CARES Act Provider Relief Fund

  • PI: Bryan Belcher
  • Sponsor: Department of Health and Human Services
  • Award amount: $4,150
  • Project dates: 04/01/2020 to 06/30/2021

Appalachian SBIRT Student Training

  • PI/Directors: Gary McCullough, Annette Ward, Heather Thorp
  • Sponsor: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
  • Award amount: $277,069.00
  • Project dates: 7/01/2015 to 6/30/2018 

Treating Laryngeal Hyperfunction with Flow Phonation

  • PI/Directors: Gary McCullough
  • Sponsor: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCHD)
  • Award amount: $308,591
  • Project dates: 9/19/2013 to 6/30/2018

Trends in Biopharmaceutical IPO R&D Spending, Profitability, and Delisting

  • PI/Directors: David Williams and Trent Spaulding
  • Sponsor: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation (PhRMA)
  • Award amount: $137,457
  • Project dates: 9/01/2016 to 07/31/2018